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The scale and diversity of her oeuvre, which includes portraits, allegorical series and still-lifes, was unmatched by any female painter of her era.

Michaelina Wautier’s great talent | Cath Pound

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Michaelina Wautier's great talent
The scale and diversity of her oeuvre, which includes portraits, allegorical series and still-lifes, was unmatched by any female painter of her era.
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The scale and diversity of her oeuvre, which includes portraits, allegorical series and still-lifes, was unmatched by any female painter of her era.

Michaelina Wautier’s great talent | Cath Pound

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Michaelina Wautier's great talent
The scale and diversity of her oeuvre, which includes portraits, allegorical series and still-lifes, was unmatched by any female painter of her era.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Sudan’s path to peace | Richard Cockett

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Sudan's path to peace
A peace settlement that divides the old Sudan into three new entities — one recognised state and two de facto polities — would merely extend a decades-long trajectory of geographic dissolution.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Insightful article @engelsbergideas.bsky.social on the tragic rise and fall of Europe's war hero
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The tragedy of Zelensky's Ukraine
President Zelensky's stunning political rise promised to combat corruption and bring rapprochement with Russia. His administration is now mired in allegations of war-profiteering.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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A little history of the medieval horse | @nicmorton.bsky.social

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A little history of the medieval horse
Horses were essential to the medieval world, shaping everything from warfare to cultural status.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Arvo Pärt’s path from profane to sacred | Guy Stagg

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Arvo Pärt's path from profane to sacred
By turning his compositions into prayers, the Estonian composer revived classical music’s ability to touch the transcendent.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Arvo Pärt’s path from profane to sacred | Guy Stagg

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Arvo Pärt's path from profane to sacred
By turning his compositions into prayers, the Estonian composer revived classical music’s ability to touch the transcendent.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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The tragedy of Zelensky’s Ukraine | Owen Matthews

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The tragedy of Zelensky's Ukraine
President Zelensky's stunning political rise promised to combat corruption and bring rapprochement with Russia. His administration is now mired in allegations of war-profiteering.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The tragedy of Zelensky’s Ukraine | Owen Matthews

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The tragedy of Zelensky's Ukraine
President Zelensky's stunning political rise promised to combat corruption and bring rapprochement with Russia. His administration is now mired in allegations of war-profiteering.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Pier Paolo Pasolini's vision of the Eternal City was far from an aesthete's fantasy. His Rome was a real place, at once poetic and squalid, which he captured with a cartographer’s eye.

Pasolini’s Rome | Ian Thomson

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Pasolini’s Rome
Pier Paolo Pasolini's vision of the Eternal City was far from an aesthete's fantasy. His Rome was a real place, at once poetic and squalid, which he captured with a cartographer’s eye.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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How Milei made austerity popular | Julieta Casas

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How Milei made austerity popular
The history of Argentina suggests that austerity is only politically viable under two conditions. Javier Milei has achieved both.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Pier Paolo Pasolini's vision of the Eternal City was far from an aesthete's fantasy. His Rome was a real place, at once poetic and squalid, which he captured with a cartographer’s eye.

Pasolini’s Rome | Ian Thomson

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Pasolini’s Rome
Pier Paolo Pasolini's vision of the Eternal City was far from an aesthete's fantasy. His Rome was a real place, at once poetic and squalid, which he captured with a cartographer’s eye.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Palestine 36’s distorted history | Christopher Silvester

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Palestine 36's distorted history
The new historical epic, 'Palestine 36', offers a deeply flawed, disappointingly partial and waywardly remiss representation of British rule in the Holy Land.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Palestine 36’s distorted history | Christopher Silvester

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Palestine 36's distorted history
The new historical epic, 'Palestine 36', offers a deeply flawed, disappointingly partial and waywardly remiss representation of British rule in the Holy Land.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials | @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social

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The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials
In the courtrooms of Nuremberg and Tokyo, the victorious Allies declared that civilisation must not merely win wars but also judge them, leaving a legal and moral legacy that persists to this day.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Loved writing this. So many characters and legal history to capture.
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials | @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social

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The long shadow of the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials
In the courtrooms of Nuremberg and Tokyo, the victorious Allies declared that civilisation must not merely win wars but also judge them, leaving a legal and moral legacy that persists to this day.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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The craft of John le Carré | Malcolm Forbes

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The craft of John le Carré
He was a writer who created his own world, filled with lamplighters and scalphunters, babysitters and pavement artists.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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The traffic lights of today have come a long way from the mechanical, gas-powered device first unveiled in London almost 160 years ago. But will they survive in a world of driverless cars?

How the traffic light changed the world | Keith Lowe

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How the traffic light changed the world
The traffic lights of today have come a long way from the mechanical, gas-powered device first unveiled in London almost 160 years ago. But will they survive in a world of driverless cars?
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November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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With the entry of Timor-Leste, ASEAN has gained a tiny new democracy to join its diverse grouping of one-party states, absolute monarchies and military juntas.

Why Timor-Leste joined ASEAN | Imran Shamsunahar

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Why Timor-Leste joined ASEAN
With the entry of Timor-Leste, ASEAN has gained a tiny new democracy to join its diverse grouping of one-party states, absolute monarchies and military juntas.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The Locarno Pact’s enduring legacy | Patrick O. Cohrs

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The Locarno Pact's enduring legacy
The Locarno Pact of 1925 provided the foundations for a more just, durable and peaceful European order. Although its early promise was snuffed out by the global crisis of the 1930s, the pact's guiding...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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The philosopher sought freedom from the bewitchment of language.

Wittgenstein’s great silence | Bryan Appleyard

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Wittgenstein's great silence
The philosopher sought freedom from the bewitchment of language.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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The trafficking networks sustaining Russia’s war of attrition | Munira Mustaffa

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The trafficking networks sustaining Russia’s war of attrition
As Putin seeks to avoid another politically damaging mobilisation, the temptation to draw on Moscow's extensive global trafficking networks will only grow.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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The Turkish president's ongoing crackdown against political opponents has left his challengers in disarray, giving him a free hand to continue reshaping the country in his own image.

Erdogan’s new order | Hannah Lucinda Smith

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Erdogan's new order
The Turkish president's ongoing crackdown against political opponents has left his challengers in disarray, giving him a free hand to continue reshaping the country in his own image.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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The German war hero was an aesthete who sought to be heard only by those who might be willing to listen.

The aesthetics of Ernst Jünger | Jaspreet Singh Boparai

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The aesthetics of Ernst Jünger
The German war hero was an aesthete who sought to be heard only by those who might be willing to listen.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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In the northernmost corner of Denmark, the painter Anna Ancher made light her lifelong muse.

Anna Ancher’s language of light | @amwilson.bsky.social

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Anna Ancher's language of light
In the northernmost corner of Denmark, the painter Anna Ancher found the light of Skagen to be her lifelong muse.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM